Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Contents:
Index. Chronology -- Filmography -- Leave sex out, says director / Dorothy Arzner -- Camera! / Enid Griffis -- Do ladies prefer brunettes? / Frederick Isaac -- Only woman director / Mayme Ober Peake -- "Dot" Arzner proves talker ability / Howard Hall -- Hollywood's one woman director / Washington (DC) Evening Star -- Directed by Dorothy Arzner! / Julie Lang -- Custom restricts women / Elena Boland -- Hard for girl to become film director, Dorothy Arzner says / Jessie Henderson -- Woman movie picture director / Eileen Creelman -- Meeting Miss Dorothy Arzner, screen's only woman director / Marguerite Tazelaar -- She thanks her lucky stars / Dora Albert -- The secret of personality / Dorothy Arzner -- Do you want a studio job? / Mabel Duke -- Clara Bow to recover fame, director says / Duane Hennessy -- How to become a woman director / Dorothy Arzner -- "Get me Dorothy Arzner!" -- Samuel Goldwyn / Adela Rogers St. Johns -- Clothes do not make the stars / Alice Tildesley -- Silk underwear feelings and nail polish effects / Philadelphia Inquirer -- Women directors are the outlook, says the only one / Marguerite Tazelaar -- Woman among the mighty / New York World-Telegram -- The screen's only woman director / Marky Dowling -- Would you be master of your fate? / Alice Tildesley -- Hilltop tenant: Dorothy Arzner thus looks at films with a clear eye / Grace Wilcox -- Woman film director needs tact / Alma Whitaker -- A woman's touch / Pauline Gale -- Woman director! / Jackie Martin -- Starlight / Dorothy Arzner -- Dorothy Arzner 1970 interview / Kevin Brownlow -- Approaching the art of Arzner / Francine Parker -- The best love story on the screen / Charles Higham -- Dorothy Arzner interview / Gerald Peary and Karyn Kay, with Joseph McBride -- Film director Dorothy Arzner: Tribute to an unsung pioneer / Mary Murphy -- Famous filmmaker is no feminist / John Hussar -- Interview with director Dorothy Arzner / Kevin Brownlow -- Dorothy Arzner / Boze Hadleigh -- Appendix: The unfinished autobiography of Dorothy Arzner / Dorothy Arzner -- Index.
Summary:
"Through dozens of interviews, a detailed chronology and filmography, and a selection of Dorothy Arzner's own writings-including her unfinished autobiography-Dorothy Arzner: Interviews offers major insights into and an in-depth examination of the life and career of one of the few women to direct films during Hollywood's Golden Age. A key figure in Hollywood for decades, she directed more studio films than any other woman in history. Her movies often focused on courageous women who must make difficult decisions to remain true to themselves-women not unlike Arzner herself, who once said that "all we can ever do in our work is write our own biography." Dorothy Arzner (1897-1979) began her film career in 1919 as a script typist for the Famous Players-Lasky company, which later became Paramount Pictures. She quickly rose through the ranks to become a script supervisor, screenwriter, and editor before directing her first film, Fashions for Women, in 1927. After the release of her final Hollywood film, First Comes Courage, in 1943, Arzner changed directions in her professional life. She made several training films for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II and directed many television commercials for Pepsi-Cola in the 1950s. She concluded her career by serving as a filmmaking instructor at the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts and UCLA, where she helped launch the first wave of college-trained moviemakers"-- Provided by publisher.
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